Rebecca Plessel

PhD candidate virology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Love writing and reading, dog-sitter on the side. Views are my own.

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

@spicyscientist 😱

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

Reminiscing on the time one of my friends asked me why people on the southern hemisphere didn't just fall off the earth, since gravity pulls down.

[Dr. Liana Lareau @lianafaye]

I would like everyone in science to read the painful, poignant description of what, exactly, Sabatini did to women under his mentorship. It should make you sick to your stomach. I don't think I could still be in science if I'd faced any of this. https://t.co/vJ5E7NWMEJ

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

There were so many things during this meeting that had me speechless. https://t.co/WpzrBeLdqS

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

@SSchiereck I audibly gasped when she told us that we've hired people with "controversy" before

[Shannon Schiereck @SSchiereck]

My favorite arguments from the “listening session” ranked:
1) we’ve hired people with questionable pasts before
2) there was an lgbtq person in his lab and he “supported” their marriage
3) we don’t police relationships because sometimes they end in marriage

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

Backlash Erupts as N.Y.U. Weighs Hiring Scientist Accused of Harassment https://t.co/ei2N5v8EAf

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

@macrophaige So genuinely disappointed and enraged at the same time.

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

@BrunoARodriguez I follow this account too! Gotta love her

[anode manuka 🇵🇸 🌍 @th33mdphd]

I am once again asking what is the appeal of returning to in-person meetings that used to have food when you can no longer provide food

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

PhD students tend to choose a lab based on the topic, but a creative and supportive environment is more important. If everyone in the lab is miserable, you will probably be miserable there too; and if they are happy and thriving, you'll also likely feel good about yourself there.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Chankillo - oldest known solar observatory in Americas : The 2300 year old archaeological ruin that lies in a desert valley in Northern Peru contains 13 towers that align on a ridge. People who built this site seem to have worshipped sun, 2000 years before Inca did.

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

Happy to report that my PCR didn't work because I made a mistake and not because the basic rules of biology have to be rewritten (as I initially suspected)

[nature @Nature]

Industry scores higher than academia for job satisfaction https://t.co/ktfD8INL1c

[nature @Nature]

What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world. https://t.co/epWJyzHxRz

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

Controversial law in Berlin puts postdocs on a path to permanent jobs. https://t.co/TtktKglzCZ

[Dr. Bruno A (Rodríguez)² 🇵🇷🇩🇴 @BrunoARodriguez]

There is a special corner in hell for people that let their timer go off for the full minute on purpose.

[Rebecca Plessel @beccademics]

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